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No, Z85,Z81.' Patented Sept. 18, 1883 WITNESSES 2 INVENTQR d #1 'cwza wz v mmM/z/5 AT ORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JARED LOOIUVOOD AND WILLIAM A. KEYS, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

HOLDER FOR SCARFS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,281, dated September 18, 1883,

Application filed May 4, 1883.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J ARED LooKwoon and WILLIAM A. KEYs, both of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Holders for Scarfs and havats; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in holders for scarfs and cravats; and the invention consists in a scarf or cravat holder constructed with a slot'which is wider at the top than at the bottom.

The invention also consists in a scarf or eravat holder provided with prongs, whereby it may be attached to the cravat or scarf; and the invention still further consistsin a cravat or scarf holder bent in U form, with aslot for the neck of the button in one side and an orifice in 1 he other, all constructed in the manner and for the purpose hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cravat with our holder attached thereto; Fig. 2, a crosssection of same; Fig. 3, a perspective view of holder detached; Fig. at, a View of unbent holder attached to scarf; Fig. 5, a cross-section of same; Fig. 6, a perspective view of unbent holder.

Similar lettersof reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

This invention has for its object the improvement of holders or devices fixed to scarfs or cravats for the purpose of keeping them snugly in place around the neck of the wearer. Hereiofore such devices have been made with the slot designed to receive the neck of the but ton narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, which construction permits the button-head to slip through the slot, and renders the de vice less useful than it would otherwise be. Therefore, in the construction of our holder, we form the slot A with its widest part a at the upper portion of the slot and its narrowest part b at the lower part of the slot. The holder is formed with suitable prongs, 0, extending backward and at right angles to it,

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these prongs being sharpened, so that by simply inserting them through the stifi foundation B of the cravat or scarf and then bending over the prongs, as shown in Fig. 4, the holder is retained firmly in posit-ion and is permanently fixed to the cravat.

To simplify the construction of these holdersthat is, so that they may be readily stamped out by suitable dies from sheet metal or other material, and yet provide for the projection of that part in which is formed the slot A-we make aholder that the part D, in

.which is formed the slot A, and the part 0,

to which are fixed the prongs 0, may be doubled in Uv shape, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. This, it will be observed, permits the slot A to project out from the surface of the cravat or scarf, so that the collar-button can be received within the slot A. To provide for collar-buttons which are set with precious stones, as is sometimes the case, we form in the part '0 of the holder an orifice, e, so that the stone will not be injured by chafing against the metal. It is to be understood that the holder hereinbefore described is secured to the inner side of the scarf or cravat, so that it may engage with the collar-button, and when so engaged the cravat or scarf cannot move out of place either sidewise or below its proper position around the neck of the wearer.

WVhen the prongs c are formed 011 the holder of the shape and construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5, one of these prongs, f, is located so as to afford the greatest resistance at the point 

